Where the Wild Things Are (movie)

Sad new: Children's author Maurice Sendak is dead at the age of 83. Here is an interview I did with the fascinating artist at his Ridgefield home in 2006 in advance of the children's opera in which he collaborated, "Brundibar.": By FRANK RIZZO Like many fables, the story of "Brundibar'' features innocent children, a wicked adversary, helpful animals, a moral to be learned and a happy ending.But underneath the plot of the allegorical children's opera is a darker, sadder story: a real-life tale of children and evil and the Holocaust. Maurice Sendak became familiar with the one-act opera, written in the late '30s, when a friend sent him...

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